At
present, there are approximately 500,000 crude oil storage tanks
located within the United States. Crude oil storage
including "tank batteries" located next to oil wells, are used to hold
the crude oil for brief periods of time in order to regulate and stabilize the
oil production and flow rates between the production wells and the crude oil pipeline
or trucking transportation sites. The condensate liquids contained in the produced gas that are captured by a mist
eliminator filter/coalescer ahead of the first compressor station in transmission pipelines are often directed to a storage tank
as well.

One way to prevent emissions of these light hydrocarbon
vapors and yield significant economic savings is to install vapor
recovery units (VRUs) on crude oil storage
tanks. VRUs are relatively simple systems
that capture 95% to 99% of the Btu-rich vapors for sale or for use onsite as fuel.

At
present, there are about 7,000 to 9,000 VRUs installed and
operating in the upstream oil and gas sector, with an average of four tanks connected to each
VRU.

In
2011 and 2012, the EPA enacted new regulatory requirements requiring the capture and containment of gas vapors that
are generated from crude oil storage tanks, tank batteries and other storage vessels at oil and gas facilities.

Flare
Gas Recovery and Vapor Recovery
Units can be located in hundreds of applications and locations. At a
Wastewater Treatment System (or Publicly Owned Treatment Works - "POTW")
gases from the facility can be captured from the anaerobic digesters, and
manifolded/piped to one of our onsite power generation plants, and make,
essentially, "free" electricity for your facility's use. These
associated "biogases" that are generated from municipally owned
landfills or wastewater treatment plants have low btu content or heating values,
ranging around 550-650 btu's.This
makes them

unsuitable for use in natural gas applications. When burned as fuel to generate
electricity, however, these gases become a valuable source of
"renewable" power and energy for the facility's use or resale to the
electric grid.

Flare
Gas Recoveryare designed and engineered
for these specific applications. It is important to note that there are
many internal combustion engines or combustion turbines that are NOT suited for
these applications. Our systems are engineered precisely for your
facility's application, and our engineers know the engines and turbines that
will work as well as those that don't.

Our
turn-key systems includes design, engineering, permitting, project management,
commissioning, as well as financing for our qualified customers. Additionally,
we may be interested in owning and operating the flare gas recovery or vapor
recovery units. For these applications, there is no investment required from the
customer.

For
more information, please provide us with the following information about the
flare gas or vapor:

Chromatograph
Fuel/Gas analysis which provides us with the btu's (heating value) and the
composition of the gas and its' impurities such as methane (and the
percentage of methane), soloxanes, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, hydrogen
sulfide, and any other hydrocarbons.